Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

Follow your own path, no matter what people say.